Thursday, February 14, 2008

SPE 0.8.4.c Python IDE editor released

As SPE was being developed for more than a year in subversion, I thought it is time for a release again. This is a major bugfix release. It ships updated plugins and also some new features, especially if you use Linux or Blender, for which Witold did a great job. Thanks to the big help of MOTU pochu, this is added to Ubuntu Hardy. I would also like to thank in particular the webhost Zindep.com for their support and patience.

Hi Nicos,Great to hear! If you are the packager for Archlinux, you can always contact me directly. In the beginning of March I'll release probably SPE 0.8.4.c which mainly improves performance and makes SPE less cpu hungry. This is version is already in svn.Stani

Great work stani!Just two quick notes: 1) In the 'about' the homepage link doesn't point to an existing page2) Sometimes when I do copy/paste it does weird things. Like pasting numbers. Sometimes it doesn't copy at all. I noticed if you keep the Ctrl+C pressed slightly longer it works fine... Do you know anything about this?

@stokes:You can hide the sidebar and bottom pane with the view menu or toolbar buttons.

@robert:As an Ubuntu user you should know that no new software is added to Gutsy now. The latest version will be available in Hardy. In gutsy you just download the latest release package, unzip it and run from the _spe folder (do not rename it):python SPE.py

@krystov:Wow, that is fantastic news! I have been waiting for ages that a mac user would step up for this. Please contact me by email at spe.stani.be somewhere at gmail.com I'd like to distribute it through the official channels.Also I am preparing a next release. It would be nice if we are in contact.

I'm running 0.8.4, and it seems much more stable than the last version. I have just noticed (I'm running it on Ubuntu Hardy) that it continually runs at about 20% on my cpu, even when I'm not using it. Any idea why it would do that? The specs are as follow:

Hi Stani,trying to move from Eclipse/Eric4 to SPE (0.8.4.h on last ubuntu), I have some troubles :- none of the "Help" menu entries works, except where we have to donate :/ the others seem to point to invalid URLs- Can't find how to change the colors and fonts of def, class, import, normal text, comments, ...- how can we have auto-completion and tooltips of our owns packages?Thanks to help me, I really appreciate to try SPE at its right valueCheers

@Lionel- invalid urls: this is not a problem of the application, more of the website for which I need to find time to relaunch it- changing colors is not supported unless you edit manually sm/wxp/stc.py- just make sure they are in your python path, so that a normal "import package" works